William Falconer Quotes

The Regular Hours Necessary To Be Observed By Those Who Follow Country Business, Are Perhaps Of More Consequence Than Any Of The Other Articles, However Important Those May Be.

With Living Colours Give My Verse To Glow: The Sad Memorial Of A Tale Of Woe!

The Head Of A Ship However Has Not Always An Immediate Relation To Her Name, At Least In The British Navy.

Hence A Ship Is Said To Be Tight, When Her Planks Are So Compact And Solid As To Prevent The Entrance Of The Water In Which She Is Immersed: And A Cask Is Called Tight, When The Staves Are So Close That None Of The Liquid Contained Therein Can Issue Through Or Between Them.

Freedom From Care And Anxiety Of Mind Is A Blessing, Which I Apprehend Such People Enjoy In Higher Perfection Than Most Others, And Is Of The Utmost Consequence.

The Fleet Being Thus More Inclosed Will More Readily Observe The Signals, And With Greater Facility Form Itself Into The Line Of Battle A Circumstance Which Should Be Kept In View In Every Order Of Sailing.

The Sacred Lamp Of Day Now Dipt In Western Clouds His Parting Day.

I Believe That Man Will Not Merely Endure; He Will Prevail. He Is Immortal, Not Because He Alone Among The Creatures Has An Inexhaustible Voice, But Because He Has A Soul, A Spirit Capable Of Kindness And Compassion.

A Long Sea Implies An Uniform And Steady Motion Of Long And Extensive Waves; On The Contrary, A Short Sea Is When They Run Irregularly, Broken, And Interrupted; So As Frequently To Burst Over A Vessel's Side Or Quarter.

In The Time Of Battle The Hammocs, Together With Their Bedding, Are All Firmly Corded, And Fixed In The Nettings On The Quarter-deck, Or Whereever The Men Are Too Much Exposed To The View Or Fire Of The Enemy.

Nor Is It The Least Advantage To Health, Accruing From Such A Way Of Life, That It Expose Those Who Follow It To Fewer Temptations To Vice, Than Persons Who Live In Crowded Society.

Hence A Ship Is Said To Head The Sea, When Her Course Is Opposed To The Setting Or Direction Of The Surges.